Delay using Konsole with Xwin

[Eli Billauer <eli at billauer dot co dot il>]

Hello,

I've been using Xwin under cygwin 1.26 (and the same Xwin which came 
with the same version). I know, a bit old, but it has been serving me 
very well since around 2002, and I have no apparent reason to upgrade. 
Or maybe...

The only thing that really annoys me, is that every time I switch tabs 
on Konsole (version 1.1 under KDE 3.0) from the client, a windows 
process is started, and then a windows process is killed, soon 
withafter. I know this, because I have sound effects on the windows 
computer for these events.

This becomes a huge annoyment when the server computer is loaded, 
because this causes Konsole to freeze for a while, until the server 
computer reclaims swapped memory space. This can be up to a few seconds.

Checking with ethereal, I discovered that a tab switch involves, among 
X11 event reports, three requests packets. One GetModifierMapping (119) 
request, one QueryPointer (38), and one packet consisting of four 
ChangeProperty (18) requests: For property WM_NAME (39), unknown 
property (231) and then twice WM_ICON_NAME (37), apparently to the same 
value.

Any idea of how I can switch tabs without getting the server involved 
too much?

Thanks in advance,
   Eli

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